RolandKol

Thanks, this what actually happened to me also... So I decided to leave the reddish one Yep, I hope I will manage to add a bit more images to the stack, and unfortunately, 120sec is the top I can go for as LP does not allow to go for longer ones... Even at 120sec Histogram is very close to the right... LP filter does not help, + Moon! P.S. Thanks guys for advices, I think I will try to subtract background 2 or even 3 times and see what happens with color calibration after.

"Some Details"? you must be joking! Wow! ADC does make the difference! and ENORMOUS! I would never believe these were done via 130PDS as they look almost like made via Celestron HedgeHD I just try to imagine how your set up looks like I guess the train is veerrry long ADC+Barlow+Cam should look interesting BTW, which cam you use? I am starting to think of purchasing ADC also but afraid, I will not get in focus as I have "circumcised" my Focuser by 1.5cm (It was protruding to deep into the scope and affected the stars).

At last I managed to catch the Eagle! (fell a sleep and spoiled 50% of images... lesson learned... beer+AP=no no!) I am not yet good at processing, any advice will help! it looks bit too red for me. Thanks for watching! [Eagle Nebula [M16]. SW 130PDS, Canon 1300D +LP filer, [30x120s, ISO800] - Woolwich]

In my case, - ZWO ASI 224MC (just a bit better than yours) and the cheapest x3 Barlow I found on Ebay... I do not remember, it was £8 or £12... Focusing is difficult with it, but possible And the best results were in Cropped mode (or ROI - I do not know the difference yet), 300x400 (around 200-300FPS), if you have not tried recording cropped/ROI, - you did it the wrong way P.S. I had more or less the same images as you described without ROI.

wow! your GIANT is getting nicer and nicer! well done! And Saturn... mmmm.... I am jealous! Mine is still hiding in the bushes I am almost ready to chop them off

My First steps in larger Lunar Mosaic AKA "Death Star" Placing pics with Fitswork4, but... not happy with a result... Does anyone know how to get rid of these ugly stitches?

Just found Macros option on Registrax Will try to leave it working with my 65vids during the night

My First Lunar Mosaic. This one is from 3 pics only (ZWO ASI 224MC) I also captured all parts using x3 Barlow and ASI224MC, but it made 65 video files around 1Gb each I will leave them for rainy days to process 3 pic Lunar Mozaic result quite nice Each part captured in FireCapture, processed in Registrax and Mozaic created using Fitswork4, noise reduced and color adjusted in Photoshop. FC file 72_Moon_RGB_Gain=200(off)_Exposure=1.0ms_2018_05_22_220751.txt And this one without a color adjustment:

thanks I have not even tried this one Yesterday, recorded 30GB of data... at the end I found I forgot the Bahtinov mask left On... wasted

Hahahaha never would figure it out! Will give it a go after will collect 4 or 5 pics worth looking at I hope this night won't be so cloudy and I will manage to get several nice ones before Jupiter will hide in the bushes

As I understand, FireCapture focus aid shows only the differences from the Initial Focus (is it getting worse or remains constant as temperature may have an effect on focus and etc.) If you don't have Bahtinov mask, simply install SharpCap it has 6 Focusing aids in it's Tools option, the top 3 - focusing on Planets, bottom 3 focusing on the Stars. Give a try. As per Registrax RGB Balance Have no idea how to use it... I tried it several times, expanded region on the almost full planet, pressed on Estimate and... nothing happened (Zero values in each window). Tried again, and nothing, - never came back. Will try next time, maybe it will start doing it's job

Wow much better but it looks like you still not in a focus... I can only imagine the detail if you would in perfect Focus! And by the way... I do have similar images after stacking before I sharpen them on Registrax. And I think I have managed to figure out how to focus on my set up close to perfect My steps of thinking were, - people managed do to it without computers and GOTO mounts and guiding cams, and how they did it? Answer: Spotting Scope! simples So I have aligned my spotting scope without Barlow on a bright start, aligned again with x3 Barlow, used Bahtinov Mask on the same star to get Focus as good as possible to achieve with Barlow on and only after, I moved to hunt Jupiter it was quite easy as the Spotting scope did it's job. this time I used FireCapture only, tried to keep Histogram around 60% And the result! 25% stack on Autostakert>Registrax Sharpening > Photoshop (background fix as I used very tiny ROI and had lots artifacts around the Jupiter) 18_Jup_RGB_Gain=400(off)_Exposure=5.0ms_2018_05_15_224848.txt P.S. next step: repeat and! I need to learn to do your nice compositions!

Thanks Carole, The most challenging thing for me... Focus... You probably do remember I was struggling a lot, and I think, I was just a bit lucky with these two pics as 130PDS aperture and focal length makes it even harder. I can only imagine, that my 10" DOB, I had previously, would produce I just cannot figure out how to focus perfectly on the planet with x3 Barlow... My usual procedure is, rough focus on the star, target on Jupiter without Barlow, center it, add Barlow (lose focus...), retarget and refocus on the planet. For these two pics, I was catching Jupiter as early as possible and used all 3 planet focusing aids SharpCap has (I think I lost 1 hour on focusing aprox). Those two pics are the results of the same procedure + LUCK, as I had several attempts with a complete failure But the fact, I managed to produce 2, more or less, same quality pics during different sessions gives me hope, I can do better. Thanks, Archonom, I left my ScharpCap settings .txt file in the previous post, just in case if you will want to compare. Btw, which camera have you used? I tried my Canon 1300D with x2 Barlow initially, but the results were very.. Very bad...

One more try. 130PDS, 3xBarlow + ZWO ASI224MC, FireCapture Gain=403, .SER. 01_27_50_RGB_Gain=403(off)_Exposure=4.0ms_Jup_07_05_2018.txt Autostakert + Photoshop My bush also allowed t o take a short peek at the Saturn... it was just a blurry blob... unfortunately ;(

Thanks Used a "Lucky Imaging Method" + I was a bit lucky!

Hi Guys, I know, 130PDS is not the right tool for Planetary AP, - but "you use what you have, don't you?" I wonder if someone has managed to get decent or maybe even amazing pics of our neighbour planets with 130PDS? Please be free to share you planetary pics below and share your knowledge with others in this field. I tried on Jupiter several times with and without barlow and the results were very... I mean, VERY bad I even afraid to show them but till last night, As I managed to get something recognizable as a Jupiter at last I am still a beginner and my first 2 cents below. 130PDS, ZWO ASI224MC, 3xBarlow, SharpCap Gain=400

Fresh M51! Straight from DSS! Did it during this night and rapidly stretched a bit before leaving to office Not a final job, as I still have some data from the night before. Canon 1300D, 130PDS, SW CC, LP Filter and NEQ6. ISO400-300sec, 4hours 6min in Total (simply left the scope shooting and went to sleep after Meridian adjustment) APT with Dithering Enabled. Initially, I wanted to try x2 Barlow on it, - a complete failure... I managed to get focus but had a very nasty coma... with and without SW CC... any ideas how to fix it?

Thank you

Hi guys, a bit offtopic as you are far away in your projects. As nights are mostly cloudy, I want to start experimenting with Stepper motors for the remote focuser (simple one: with 2 buttons and a speed controller) and I wonder if you can advise and direct me to the best initial start. From my google explorations, I have picked up 28BYJ-48 Stepper Motor (5v) with ULN2003 driver and UNO R3 Arduino Rev3 board for a start. I have few questions in relation: 1) Is this 28BYJ-48 5-volt motor powerful enough for 130PDS focuser with Canon 1300D camera (around 650g in total) in it? (I strongly doubt it will be enough) 2) In case I will succeed with a remote focuser project and will decide to move on to autofocuser, - will UNO R3 Arduino Rev3 board be the right board to interact with ASCOM driver? if not, which should I go for? Thank you for any comment in advance! Regards, R.K.

I think, It was a beginners luck...... nothing more. It was very clear, neighbours had all lights Off and GOTO surprisingly stayed on the Orion for quite a long period of time without adjustments (for 2 or 3mins aprox). I was so excited, even tried to do 30sec subs, - but the result kicked me down to 25s, later to 15s and back to 10sec at the end Next day, I tried to stay on 15 sec only... but had only every 6th sub close to acceptable result stacking went ugly... P.S. there is possibility I also used FITStackerV12 to get rid of the noise and match the colours, - I do not remember... but I would definitely use it now P.P.S. I used 2" adaptor and 2" LP Filter for Cannon, not the 1.25" one.

Hi all, It was my third attempt with the most popular target SW GOTO 10"DOB Flextube, Canon 1300D, LP Filtter, from Woolwich, London (December 2017) ISO800 /3200-204frames [10sec each] (darks+bias) DeepSkyStacker + Photoshop. Has anyone managed to get at least 30sec on GOTO Dob? I somehow managed to have more or less good 30sec subs on Andromeda, but was not able to repeat...